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From Zeta City on $5.28 a Day: A Guide for Tourists on the Cheap (January 2014 edition):

No Zeta City vacation, economy or otherwise, is complete without a visit to the headquarters of the elite super-powered defenders of our fair city, The Champions of Zeta City. A modest compound comprised of a five-floor brownstone that was once home to Zeta’s first superhero, the vigilante known only as Badge (see “The Superheroic History of Zeta City” on page 66), an adjacent ten-story office building for the Champs’ support staff and PR machine, and a theme restaurant/souvenir shop—all of which takes up an entire city block in the middle of downtown—Champs HQ may seem like an inviting target for super-villains and the last place you’d want to visit, unless your insurance premiums are paid up, of course. But thanks to nearly a month of tense negotiations between the Champs, City Hall, and The Zeta City Syndicate of International Super Criminals and Crooks Against The Good, The Fair, and The Just (ZCSISCCATGTFTJ) in the wake of The Event of ’09, the headquarters of both organizations were declared off-limits to attack, mainly because both sides were getting tired of rebuilding their respective HQs at least every other week. (City Hall itself was unable to include itself as a rider on this agreement, so visit there at your own risk.) Now anyone can snag a selfie in front of Champs HQ without any worry of becoming a potential hostage or human shield!

And in case one of the Champs happens to sneak into frame, here’s a quick identification guide for social network tagging:

Neutrino: cosmic Good Samaritan with a slightly larger than average noggin…that glows

The Vumpire: baseball-obsessed creature of the night turned hero

Fred Zeppelin: high-tech inventor, billionaire, and balloonist

Disco Inferno: elemental hotshot forever stuck in the ’70s

The Mammal: he’s some sort of…well, mammal

From the website of the Zeta City Tribune (recovered February 5, 2014):

Breaking news! We have just learned that Fastodon, the World’s Fastest Mammoth and one of the founders of The Champions of Zeta City, has just turned in his spandex costume for an Armani suit and is leaving the Champs for the lucrative world of celebrity endorsements. When asked for comment, the Champs’ lead PR agent, Veronica Vox, would only say that the word will be going out shortly regarding tryouts to find a new member to fill Fastodon’s cross-trainers. More to come on this story, and its impact on our fair city, as it develops…